Off the Wall

Do you feel comforted by the knowledge that the Independent Commission
(IC) might, and I stress "might", be in place on 10 February?

I sure don't!

The whole exercise has been a PR disaster for the game. None of the participants emerge with much credit at all.

As
the weeks roll on, the issues that the IC needs to address pile
up......yet it won't be in office until after the unofficial start to
the 2012 season (the All Stars/Indigenous match), and just three weeks
before the premiership starts!

I have lost count of the number of issues I have raised that need to be looked at, but here is another one.

The game desperately needs a consistent policy on code loyalty.

And
by that I mean what approach the NRL has to former players who switched
to the AFL, and rugby union, and who now want to return to rugby
league.